What's so great about Xen? I have tried to make it work from Novell (suse), ubuntu, and other distros...it flat out does not work. VmWare on the other hand does flawlessly what Xen claims to do. I would say Hypervisor on any platform is a nonplus to someone serious about VM. »

It's true that Vista has Linux beat in Eye Candy, but the Eye Candy is such a drag on performance, that ALL of the Vista Installs I've worked on have had comments like "Can't you make it run any faster? My spyware laden, virus ridden XP ran faster..." Yes...it's true...i have seen an XP box that was admittedly very slow, beat the pants off a fresh install of Vista, not only in boot times, but in other daily tasks, such as writing a document in notepad, doing a virus scan of things in active memory, oh...and playing a game of solitaire (any flavor). And then I comapre it to my Mepis, or Ubuntu installs...and think..I'm glad I don't have the eye candy..it isn't worth the pain and suffering. »